Chapter 3. Writing programs using MongoDB

In this chapter

Introducing the MongoDB API through Ruby

How the drivers work

The BSON format and the MongoDB network protocol

Building a complete sample application

It’s time to get practical. Though there’s much to learn from experimenting with the MongoDB shell, you can see the real value of this database only after you’ve built something with it. That means jumping into programming and taking a first look at the MongoDB drivers. As mentioned before, 10gen provides officially supported, Apache-licensed MongoDB drivers for all of the most popular programming languages. The driver examples in the book use Ruby, but the principles I’ll illustrate are universal and easily transferable to other ...

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